The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-06-20

everything God, as the browning glory OF
this land which He careth for. These
that honor Him He will honor" Happy
are the people whose God is the Lord. l."
God is our King of old. The help that is
done upon earth He doeth it Himself.
Living belief in the tribune God has made
Briton and Dane, Norman and Saxon, one
king and people, Lords and Commons,
Church and State harmonious in action.
Here is the strength at which the nations
marvel And what pages OF history are
those of this great nation. In spite OF
failures, mistakes, wrongs and follies, ma
tional sins and disasters, what mighty acts
in the great drama of all time! We hear
the voices of them that shout for the mas
terry, the blow of the trumpets and the din
of arms I've see the rush of infantry, the
dash of cavalry, and noble ships bear down
the foe. Anon are heard the Gathering of
politicians and men who love their country
speaking in the silver tongue of eloquence.
We look on the swarming multitudes that
SOW and reap and buy and sell and gather
golden wealth from all the world, but bet
ter far we hear as it rises to the throne of
the Omnipotent and AIl-Merciful from
priests at the altar, from children at the
mothers knee, from fathers in their trial,
alike in peaceful hours and days that tried
mems souls, "Our Father which art in
Heaven" and from His dwelling place He
has heard.
Thus, if we praise the mother land, we
praise her colonies, and the daughter land
as well. They who speak the language in
which were written Hamlet and Othello,
and which enshrines the thoughts of Ten
nyson and Browning; they who are of the
stock whence came Sir Philip Sydney and
LatImer and Ridley, the progenitors of
Washington and Franklin, and the host of
worthless in war, in letters, in philosophy
and learning, in good living, high think
ing and noble doing, are one in speech, in
the memories of the past, in common
literature, in a common struggle against
superstition and tyranny in government
and in religion, against slavery and against
every violation of the inalienable rights of
man.
In conclusion, dear friends, suffer from
me as Minister of the Church of England
a few words of exhortation. Wherever we
the land, the moment we enter the portals
of the Church we are at home. What do
you hear? You hear the old words in
which your forefathers prayed to God and
praised Him. almighty and most merci-
full Father, we have erred and strayed
from Thy ways like lost sheep" 1--WE
praise Thee, 0 God and acknowledge Thee
to be the Lord" You join in the creed of
the old faith for which some ancestor
perhaps went to the stake. The font and
altar are there and the Minister of
God stands ready. The bread is broken
and the wine passed out and the invita-
ton is heard, Come unto me all We that
labor and are heavy-laden, and l will give
you rest and the whole blessed gospel is
summed up in the comfortable words
''God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten son that whosoever believeth
in Him should not perish, but have ever
lasting life'
If in old times men said with exultation.
II am Roman citizen" we can say, each
one, Il am an English chuIchman." Will
you help US to maintain here in the integ-
rity of its holiness, in banishing from it
whatever mars it's usefulness and impairs
it's beauty, this church which has proved
to be the palladium of England's great
ness? Shall there be wanting in us the
fruits of the Catholic faith as set forth in
the English standards and in the English
PRAYER book? Recall the story of our
Patron Saint, who fought against the
dragon that came forth to devour the good,
6o nd fY1l TC fhar ,of
spring lesson in Raphael's beautiful pic
ture of this goodly youthful warrior, as he
rises in his stirrups to bring down his
knightIy sword with resistless might upon
the hideous thing of poisonous breath and
horrid NAV? What splendid emblem this
of what we ought to be! Armed, we should
be, in Gods armor of proof against the
dragon of sin and indifference which is
destroying the best, hottest and fairest.
Dragons of lust, intemperance and unbe-
lief desolate the land No sword can
wound them like the sword of the living
God. No breast-plate can withstand them
but the breast-plate of righteousness; no
lance can let out the bad and poisonous
blood but the lance of steady and unwaving
faith. The banner of our profession is the
Cross of st. Georgia cross dyed in the
crimson of the hearts blood on the white
shield of pure life. Whether we be Eng
lish or American, European or Asiatic-
such as this must be the only banner under
which we can fight. Under such we must
conquer, we lay aside our differences, we
forget our prejudices, we sink our stations
and rise above our countries. In Christ
there is no England, no America, no col
onies, no daughter and no mother coun-
try. There is one God and Father of all,
who is above all, and through all, and in
all Our great Captain is the King of the
Celestial country to which we must fight
our way.
Let the greatness of our calling be seen
in this that we are thus true to duty, to
home, to the sacred institutions of Gods
Church and Holy Day, to liberty, to the
living, loving Tri-une God, and thus await
the glorious consummatlon to which the
whole creation moves, and at the thought
of which the eyes fill with tears, the heart
throbs and the blood flows with a warmer
and swifter current. When our Anglo
Saxon race from every shore on the spread